Masking Projectors

Step 1

Open up your favorite image creation software (MS Paint is fine if you don't have anything else available) and create a new image, 300 x 300 pixels.

Using just the colors white (#FFFFFF) and black (#000000) create a mask for your movie. This can be any shape or design but keep in mind that all of the areas which are black (#000000) will be made transparent on your final Projector. An example is shown below:

In this example, we want our final Projector to look like a speech bubble. Once you are happy with your image, save it as a BMP file. For the purpose of this tutorial, name your file mask.bmp, although any name is acceptable.

Please note that your BMP file should be 24bit True Color.

Continue to Step 2